Southern Holding & Securities Corp. v. Kentucky River Coal Corp.

FORD, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, instituted this action at law against the Kentucky River Coal Corporation, a Virginia corporation, and the Swift Coal & Timber Company, a Louisiana corporation, alleging itself to be the owner, seized as of fee “under one title and source of title and not under different titles,” of six specifically described tracts of land lying on Big Leatherwood creek in Perry county, Ky., the possession of which is alleged to have been wrongfully taken by the defendants and unlawfully detained by them from the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks to be…